ARC REVIEW: Beta Test (#gaymers, #2) By Annabeth Albert

Ravi Tandel is ahead of the game. He’s a top video game developer and he just got asked to present a top-secret project at a huge gaming conference in Seattle. All systems are a go…until he learns his office nemesis is coming along for the ride. Player vs. Player. Fight!

Newly minted MBA Tristan Jones doesn’t seem like the gaming type but he knows the business inside-out. Together, they’ll give an awesome presentation – they just have to survive the cross-country trip. Ravi’s opinion of Tristan is rebooted when he discovers a softer side to the conservative charmer and a new tension builds between them.Despite their best efforts to keep it casual, things heat up quickly. Tristan is hiding his true self for fear of what his parents might think. Ravi knows that feeling all too well, but he didn’t disconnect from his family years ago only to hide who he is now. To be together, Tristan has to push past his fear and ultimately decide, does he want a future with Ravi? Or is it game over?

Book Two of the #gaymers series.

REVIEW

I haven't read the 1st book of the #gaymers series yet or anything by this author until this book, so this arc was one of those spur of the moment decisions, but once I started I could not stop. Fast-paced, fun, steamy and emotional hate-to-love story with endearing, down to earth characters.

At first glance Tristan & Ravi couldn't be more different from each other. Ravi, the top video game developer and artist, the charmer, flamboyant and center of every party. Everybody wants to be his friend or lover. Well, with the exception of his co-worker Tristan who is more of an introvert and workaholic with poor social skills and low self-esteem. At the beginning of the story all the guys want is to spend not more than necessary in each other's company, but soon enough they'll be forced by work to set on a cross-country journey when they'll discover that there's more than meets the eye in both cases.

Oh, what a lovely and heartfelt story this was! I loved the potrayal of the MCs who were the type of characters you can relate to, with both virtues and flaws and they completed each other wonderfully. I've been missing out. Must read more of this series ASAP! Highly recommended to every mm romance reader fan who wants a story and characters with depth.